USC student charged with murder in stabbing of professor

December 6, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. | Updated December 6, 2016 at 5:10 p.m.

by Associated Press

This 2013 photo provided by the University of Southern California shows USC Professor Bosco Tjan. A graduate student arrested on suspicion of stabbing Tjan to death was being held on $1 million bail Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. David Jonathan Brown, a 28-year-old brain and cognitive science student, was arrested in the Friday afternoon attack in the heart of the Los Angeles campus. Tjan was pronounced dead at the scene. (University of Southern California via AP)
This 2013 photo provided by the University of Southern California shows USC Professor Bosco Tjan. A graduate student arrested on suspicion of stabbing Tjan to death was being held on $1 million bail Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. David Jonathan Brown, a 28-year-old brain and cognitive science student, was arrested in the Friday afternoon attack in the heart of the Los Angeles campus. Tjan was pronounced dead at the scene. (University of Southern California via AP)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged a University of Southern California student with murder in the stabbing death of a professor.

The district attorney's office says 28-year-old David Jonathan Brown will be arraigned Tuesday.

The case includes a special allegation that Brown personally used a deadly weapon to kill 50-year-old Siaufung "Bosco" Tjan in the professor's office.

If convicted, Brown could face a maximum sentence of 26 years to life in prison.

Tjan joined USC in 2001, taught in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and served as co-director of the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center.

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